Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1887 — The Editor Was In. [ARTICLE]

The Editor Was In.

“Is the editor in ?” asked a wry-faced ■ itian, who stood six feet and two inches in his socks, of the office boy of a Bloomington newspaper. “I don’t linow,” sqid the boy. “I’ll as-k-i Ihhl --He-was gone, alwurt ten minutes, .1 avhen he returned, smiling blandly, and said: “I guess he’s in. He’s in if you are the man he thinks you are. Is your , name Smithers?’’ “Yes. My name is Smithers, and I 1 reckon be won’t be in, the cowardly puppy, when he knows that J (ike Smith- ! ers is after him.” i ' “So you’re Smithers, are you,” said 1 the boy. “Yes, I’m Smithers. The same Smithers that the gum-started editor called a ham in This morning's paper. Eve come to clean out the shop and thrash the ed- j ; itor till he won’t know, himself from a ] stuck pig. I reckon- the editor aint in, now. is,lie?”... - “Oh, yes! I’ll show vou tip to-his room in a minute. He told me to ask you if you was Smithers, and if yfiu'Nvasj'to i show you up. When I left the room, ■ he had two revolvers, a ten-pound ■ weight, and a sword lying on his dpk, 1 and he told me to show you the door to 1 his room light away, and to get behind the base burnfir for safety as soon as you went in, Right this way, sir. The editor’s in, and he is anxious to see you.” “Well, you tell the editor that I said he inigld go v to Chicago, if he wants to. He cau kiss my foot. I hain’t got no -time to fool Away fin him.” And Smithers iimr<e’d to catch the train.— I Through Mai

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